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Breathless and misleading front page of the Sunday Times today. The only new thing about it is this is how Number 10 plan to sell a deal the outlines of which were obvious in July, and the negotiation of which was mostly completed last month
I'm not the only person who has noticed the Sunday Times front page in fact contains nothing new with regard to the negotiations with the EU ....
The deal is more or less known (though surprised no mention of UK voluntary alignment with single market rules, that will in effect mostly happen). The question remains at what point will the PM be prepared to take on the ERG wing of her party?
Not enough for Labour anyway - still pushing their fantasy customs union in which we have a say in EU trade deals, and which prevents borders...
Meanwhile in Conservative Home a concern about splitting the conservative party. I don't pretend to be an expert, but I think the horse may bolted on that one a while ago... conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2…
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A win for the Conservative anti no-deal party. Now how do the Conservative no-deal party react knowing that in the event of rejecting the PM's deal the numbers may exist to withdraw Article 50?
The instant judgement that this defeat is bad for the PM is I think wrong.

Most or all of the rebels today will vote for her deal, she now has a clear threat to use against ERG rebels - this deal or no Brexit.
fwiw I would say the chances of no-deal Brexit have now crashed and the chances of the PM's deal or similar gone up to perhaps 50%. But the chances of no-Brexit are also strengthening, given the PM's ability to be her own worst enemy
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Am bored of reading the conventional wisdom that the EU could not renegotiate Brexit, and to make this case will borrow the wisdom of one of our most experienced MEPs @RCorbettMEP - this is how it COULD happen (and why it probably won't)
There is no more important Brexit job for MPs in the coming two months than to build consensus - something those more astute than the PM realised some time ago. Future relationship talks with a split Parliament could not succeed.
(The @RCorbettMEP article extracted earlier - labourlist.org/2019/01/richar…)
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The Government may have informally asked the EU about an Article 50 Extension - we presume not for any serious reason (no-deal prep, election, referendum) but in the vague hope this somehow helps the PM's deal pass Parliament
Under three months from leaving the EU by law and we have a Government without a plan.
It is not clear that the UK Government has learned anything about negotiating with the EU over the past two and a half years
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